• Portuguese is 'happy with the mistakes' in 3-1 loss to Real
• Mourinho insists friendly gives Chelsea plenty to work on
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| José Mourinho |
The Chelsea manager José Mourinho shrugged off defeat to his former club Real Madrid
as "not a drama" and admits he was pleased to see his side make
mistakes in the match as it means they can now work on correcting them
ahead of the new season.
Chelsea slumped to their first defeat of pre-season as Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice to earn Madrid a 3-1 win in the International Champions Cup final in Miami.
The
Portugal international's first goal – a trademark swerving free-kick –
restored Madrid's lead after Marcelo's opener had been swiftly cancelled
out by Ramires in the first half, and his second, a fierce header,
sealed victory for Carlo Ancelotti's team.
Mourinho,
who left Madrid this summer to return for a second stint at Stamford
Bridge, felt his side could have done better for both of Ronaldo's goals
but preferred to use that as a positive rather than a negative.
"For
the first, we gave away a free-kick in a position where he's happy to
have it and then the second goal, I told the players with every cross he
likes to try to get into space because he's good in the air," Mourinho
said.
"For me, it's perfect we made
mistakes so that we have them to work on. As I said last week, we had
five victories in pre-season and zero points. Now we have five victories
and one defeat, we still have zero points, it's not a drama.
"They
play in La Liga, we play in the Premier League. If we meet them in the
Champions League and lose it's a different story but a summer tournament
is a summer tournament."
"I came here to analyse my team, I'm so happy with the mistakes we made and I'm happy with the good things we did."
Chelsea were without David Luiz and Juan Mata for the match because of injury. David Luiz was at the centre of transfer speculation on Wednesday following reports that Barcelona had made a £35m bid for the 26-year-old, which the Blues rejected out of hand.
There
was no mention of that offer on Chelsea's website but Mourinho did
speak about the Brazil international's fitness situation – and that of
Mata – ahead of Saturday's friendly with Roma in Washington.
He
said: "I don't know if David Luiz and Mata will be back for Roma, they
have some small problems, Mata a new one and David Luiz a problem he had
in the past, a muscular injury.
"They
are working with the physios in Washington instead of travelling here.
We'll see if they can join the team and play a little against Roma."
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